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Why Ukraine Must Not Join NATO
Some hopefully compelling evidence

Again, we find ourselves on the cusp of something or another. In the past 3 years Ukraine has been held to the hilt, twirled on the sharp edge of clifftops and held dangerously close to the heat of a new fire more times than could be listed here: in April 2022, we inside Ukraine were so hopeful that the west would close the skies, when the scale of crimes against humanity was discovered in Bucha, near Kyiv. The Russian horde rolled in Bucha on 27th February, the 3rd day of the invasion, and were forced to retreat on 31st March. They had time, plenty time to do whatever they wanted, and what they wanted to do may have already been thrown onto a stack of papers labled war crimes in history, and kept in place by a metaphorical paperweight. But that was in 2022, which is basically now, in this post-Soviet world, where governments snooze and voters seek entitlement in ever greater measures, candidly named democracy for those hard of hearing.
500 victims have been named. They include children under the age of 18. Girls aged 14 were killed also, if you read reports on places like Wikipedia. What some of these reports do not say is how they died: repeatedly raped in front of their parets, fathers murdered sometimes for trying to intervene, and the girls, after abused by many soldiers finally dispatched of.